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Visual Grub is an Instagram client for Mac that lets you to enjoy Instagram with full accessibility, without opening your web browser again and again.

The best use of this client is the ease that it provides, to use Instagram on Mac. You can open it alongside with your chat apps. So on side, you will stay updated with what’s happening in your Instagram account and on the other side, you will be having chat with your loving beings.

You can perform all the Instagram tasks like see your friends’ photos, like, comment on others photos etc. You can follow/unfollow other users and can view the Instagram photos in offline mode as well.

Visual Grub makes it easy to see the photos your friends on Instagram are posting, right from your Mac. Fire it up alongside your chat clients and leave it open while you work, it’s happy sitting off to the side and quietly reading your Instagram feed.

Incoming! is a Twitter search client for Mac OS X that is designed for power users and social media experts.

Incoming! lets you to search for the tweets that matter to you the most. Thus it saves your time from getting being wasted on scrap tweets and also enables you to follow your favorite topics or keep track of what users are saying about you and your company.

The interface is clean and intuitive which makes the Incoming!, simple to use. Moreover, you can follow the latest trends, can create advanced searches or can stalk with your favorite users.

It’s a paid app and is available for $9.99. You should try Incoming! now.

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Search for tweets on any topic.

View every image from each tweet.

Find the most popular links being shared.

View where each tweet came from on a map.

Incoming! Says

Incoming! is a Twitter search client designed for power users and social media experts. It lets you cut through the noise and find the tweets that matter to you most — so you can follow your favorite topics or keep track of what users are saying about you and your company.

Twinja is an amazing online application that empowers you with the functionality of Twitter.com from your desktop! It’s easy to use and works on both Mac & PC.

It offers you all basic features like post tweet, direct message, follow/unfollow other users etc. Automatic URL & User recognition are other good features of Twinja. It refreshes automatically after every 2 minutes, keeping you update with the latest updates, happening in your Twitter timeline.

Tired from opening Instagram again and again to check your feed? If Yes is the answer, then that frustration is going to be end with the use of Ratatam on your Mac.

Ratatam is an Instagram client for Mac, which brings the Instagram feed, directly on your desktop. It notifies you immediately, whenever a new photo is posted. You can like and comment on the photo within this tool. Moreover, you can backup all of your Instagram photos.

Using Ratatam is very easy. Just download it on your Mac, connect with your Instagram account and that’s it. You will start getting all Instagram notification on your desktop. As simple as 1, 2, 3. Isn’t it?

It’s available for OS X 10.7 or later and costs you around $ 0.99. You should give Ratatam, a try now.

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Photos are loaded in the background and window is updated automatically when new photos are available

Be notified when new photos are posted by your contacts (based on Growl)

Comment photos

Like photos

Backup all your Instagram photos locally

OAuth support: Your password is not stored anywhere

Ratatam Says

RatatamApp is a tiny Instagram client for Mac OS X. Get the real-time Instagram notifications on your desktop.

The people, you follow on Instagram keep uploading beautiful pictures and it is possible that you might be missing many out of them due to your inactivity on Instagram. But this is not going to happen any more as Screenstagram brings the Instagram photos on your desktop.

Login using your Instagram account to grab your own Instagram feed, but if you don’t wish so, then this app will pull the photos from Popular feed and will display them as screensaver. Pretty cool service and unique as well.

It’s free to use and is available for MAC (Snow Leopard and higher). You should give Screenstagram, a try now.

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Use Instagram as Screensaver on your MAC

Grab the photos from your Instagram feed

Pull the photos from ‘Popular’ photo feed

Completely free to use

Screenstagram Says

Quite simply, Screenstagram is a screensaver for your Mac. It consumes photos from the always engaging Instagram service, displaying them in a beautifully suited array on your idling screen. It can consume your friend’s Instagram photos or those otherwise highly-rated from across the Instagram community.

Carousel is the best way to use Instagram on your Mac. It’s a simple, beautiful way to explore Instagram on your Mac in a minimal footprint.

View your feed, popular photos, your photos, comment, like, save photos and much, much more. Moderate the comments that you receive on your Instagram photos. See all photos liked by you. Multiple windows support lets you to watch multiple images at a time. Full keyboard support and shortcuts to ease the use of Instagram’s features. It comes with four themes that enable you to customize the way, you use Instagram on your Mac.

Bluebird is an awesome Twitter client designed for Mac that lets you to enjoy Twitter with all features without logging into Twitter web again and again.

The best feature that I like about this app is its user interface which is very intuitive. Bluebird comes with three themes to choose from. Check your followers, the people you follow, replies, tweets, retweets etc. all with this single Twitter client for Mac. Finding the trending topics become simple with this app.

This one is completely free to use. You should give Bluebird, a try now.

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Auto-completion of usernames from the list of people you follow

Auto-translation of smiley sequences — like “:)” — and pasted-in Emoji into their graphical equivalents

Slightly refined UI

Free to use

Bluebird Says

Bluebird allows you to enjoy full features of Twitter from the desktop. Customize the way you use Twitter with 3 themes that come with this app.

In this fast growing world, everyone wants to be social online. With the growing rush of social networking sites, it has become difficult to stay in touch with all friends because if your friend is on Facebook, you are on Twitter and if you are on Twitter, your friend is on MSN. Using different tools for different social networking sites is none other than a task of pain.

Digsby puts end to all your social networking problems. It’s an All in One tool to stay in touch with your friends from different social networking sites. Talking about its features for IM purpose, you can have chatting with your friends from Facebook, Yahoo, Gtalk etc.

You can sync your email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail to stay updated with the incoming emails. From the social networking point of view, Digsby is a perfect tool for major social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace.

You can post status and tweets to your Facebook and Twitter account respectively, right from Digsby. You need not to login into your Facebook or Twitter account as you can get the live updates on your desktop with the Digsby.

Digsby is completely free to use and is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. You should give it a try now.

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Bring your IM, Email, Social Networks needs in one tool

Instant messaging support for Facebook, Yahoo, Gtalk etc.

Get the email updates’ notifications on your desktop

Perfect tool to stay updated on Facebook and Twitter

Post status and tweets without logging in to Facebook or Twitter

Completely free to use.

Digsby Says

Digsby brings the IM, Email and Social Networks in one easy to use application.

If you have been using Twitter from passed some time, then you must be familiar with the TweetDeck. This Was the best Twitter client. Yes, it Was, as it’s continuously loosing popularity after getting acquired by Twitter for whooping $40 million price.

So you might be looking for its alternative. Yes?? Then stop searching now as Janetter is the app that puts end to your search. This Twitter client for Windows and Mac is really a cool alternative for TweetDeck. The best thing that I like about this app is that its layout is built on Chromium, making it quite simple to use with intuitive user interface. You have the option of choosing a theme from 27 themes. If you have good knowledge of HTML or CSS, then you can create your own themes as well.

The simple user interface ensures you to make the most out of Twitter without missing any single update from your friends. It’s fully customizable and you can modify it according to your taste. You can also edit the Pop Up notification settings to receive updates related to the selected criteria.

Whereas most of the apps try to get more and more users by providing the feature of linking other social networking accounts, Janetter only focuses on Twitter and that’s the reason, why it’s getting nice response from the users all over the globe. As of now, only Windows and Mac versions are available but developers are working hard to bring release for other platforms as well.

Although the Mac store has got thousands of Twitter clients, but Kiwi is the Twitter client, that brings the customization at its best. In fact, not only the customization, Kiwi is like full-featured Twitter client for Mac.

Talking about the features of Kiwi, it gives you the facility of assigning multiple accounts with it, at the same instant. You can search for tweets and trendy topics and can post tweets along with the pictures and videos attached with them. Another good thing that I like about the app is that it offers you the feature of using Keyboard shortcuts.

Talking about the customization in Kiwi, you can choose from 9 in-built themes and can also create yours using the API. You can highlight the important tweets and can change the color of Twitter background to match it with the color of your desktop. You can change the Notifications settings to get the real-time updates of tweets in which you are mentioned. You can even change the keyboard shortcuts, making it easier to use.